Spycraft

The Secret History of the Cia's Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda

By: Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton, Henry R. Schlesinger

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Paperback | 26 May 2009

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Who's spying on you? And how are they doing it?

Spycraft offers an unprecedented look at the CIA's most secretive operations and the devices that made them possible.

Written by the former director of the CIA's Office of Technical Service, Robert Wallace (a real-life Q, straight out of the James Bond films), and internationally renowned intelligence historian H. Keith Melton,Spycraft reveals how the CIA carries out its life-and-death missions against a backdrop of geopolitical tensions - including the Cold War, the Cuben Missile Crisis, and the War on Terror.

More relevant than ever - given the news about Edward Snowden and the NSA, concerns about privacy rights, organizations like Julian Assange's WikiLeaks, and popular entertainment likeThe Americans and Homeland - Spycraft is an important and revealing primer on the fundamentals of high-tech espionage.

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"Reveals more concrete information about CIA tradecraft than any book."--The Washington Times

"This is a story I thought could never be told."--James M. Olson, former chief of CIA counterintelligence

"The first comprehensive look at the technical achievements of American espionage from the 1940s to the present."--Wired

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Foreword	p. xiii
Preface	p. xvii
Official Message from the CIA	p. xxvii
At The Beginning
My Hair Stood on End	p. 3
We Must Be Ruthless	p. 16
Playing Catch-Up
The Penkovsky Era	p. 25
Beyond Penkovksy	p. 36
Bring in the Engineers	p. 53
Building Better Gadgets	p. 62
In The Passing Lane
Moving Through the Gap	p. 81
The Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword (and Shield)	p. 87
Fire in the Arctic	p. 103
A Dissident at Heart	p. 110
An Operation Called CKTAW	p. 138
Let The Walls Have Ears
Cold Beer, Cheap Hotels, and a Voltmeter	p. 159
Progress in a New Era	p. 179
The Age of Bond Arrives	p. 195
Genius Is Where You Find It	p. 232
Prison, Bullet, Passport, Bomb
Conspicuous Fortitude, Exemplary Courage in a Cuban Jail	p. 249
War by Any Other Name	p. 277
Con Men, Fabricators, and Forgers	p. 307
Tracking Terrorist Snakes	p. 325
Fundamentals of Tradecraft
Assessment	p. 363
Cover and Disguise	p. 381
Concealments	p. 388
Clandestine Surveillance	p. 401
Covert Communications	p. 420
Spies and the Age of Information	p. 443
Epilogue: An Uncommon Service	p. 461
U.S. Clandestine Services and OTS Organizational Genealogy	p. 465
Selected Chronology of OTS	p. 466
Directors of OTS	p. 468
CIA Trailblazers from OTS	p. 469
Pseudonyms of CIA Officers Used	p. 471
Instructions to Decipher the Official Message from the CIA on page xxv	p. 472
Glossary	p. 473
Notes	p. 481
Selected Bibliography	p. 525
Acknowledgments	p. 533
Index	p. 537
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The Secret History of the Cia's Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda

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